It is 1919 in Breslau. The hideously battered bodies of four young sailors are discovered on an island in the River Oder. As Eberhard Mock endeavours to piece together the elements of this brutal crime, he combs the brothels and drinking dens of Breslau and is drawn into an insidious game: it seems that anyone he questions during the course of the investigation is destined to become the murderer’s next victim.
Dark, sophisticated and uncompromising, the distinctive Breslau series has already received broad critical acclaim. The Phantoms of Breslau confirms Criminal Assistant Mock as surely the most outrageous and original detective in crime fiction.
